FAMOUS

[A: FAMOUS is a low-resolution version of the HadCM3 climate model. It is intended to be used for projects where long periods of simulated time are needed, because it runs about ten times faster than HadCM3, which it was originally tuned to emulate. For more details, see the About FAMOUS page

[A: TheUK Met. Office Unified Model :]

[A: FAMOUS is a low-resolution version of the HadCM3 climate model. It is intended to be used for projects where long periods of simulated time are needed, because it runs about ten times faster than HadCM3, which it was originally tuned to emulate. For more details, see the About FAMOUS

[A: The UK Met. Office Unified Model :]

[A: FAMOUS is a low-resolution version of the HadCM3 AOGCM. It is intended to be used for projects where long periods of simulated time are needed, because it runs about ten times faster than HadCM3, which it has been tuned to emulate. FAMOUS runs at UM version 4.5. The atmosphere component is 48×36 (7.5deg longitude x 5deg latitude) with 11 levels in the vertical. The ocean component is 98×72 (3.75deg longitude x 2.5deg latitude with 20 levels, the same as HadCM3L). FAMOUS does not use flux adjustment; in order to achieve this the ocean component of FAMOUS was developed with a few changes to the bathymetry of the North Atlantic to allow a more realistic representation of the ocean circulation, as described by Jones et al. (2003). Owing to its lower resolution, the climate of FAMOUS is not as realistic as that of HadCM3, but the speed of FAMOUS made it possible to tune it using an iterative objective approach, which cannot be afforded with higher-resolution models. The tuning process and the resulting climate simulation are described by Jones et al. (2003).:]

[A: Unified Model :]